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Who we are
This research project brings together three departments within UCL: The Bartlett Development Planning Unit with Adriana Allen, Rita Lambert and Monica Bernal, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis with Andrew Hudson-Smith and Flora Roumpani, and The Bartlett School of Architecture/UCL Urban Laboratory with Ben Campkin. It is undertaken in close collaboration with Carlos Escalante from CENCA, Silvia de Los Rios from CIDAP and Liliana Miranda from Foro Ciudades Para la Vida - a network of 57 organisations from 20 Peruvian cities, ranging from local government, academics and civil society groups - as well as local communities from two contested settlements in Lima, Perú. Drone Adventures will be joining in a mission using mapping drones with Alexandre Habersaat and Emanuele Lubrano.

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

A final field trip in May 2015, before the closure of the project, allows an evaluation of the progress made so far and the lessons learnt through this mapping process. A documentary and exhibitions in both London and Lima will soon arrive, so watch this space.

Remap Lima gets a continuation through the research project cLima Sin Riesgo: http://www.climasinriesgo.net/

The mapping of everyday risk in both Jose Carlos Mariategui and Barrios Altos is currently being undertaken to understand risk distribution and accumulation.

Discussing enumeration at a large scale as a means for collective action and organization to resist eviction and unwanted change. An announcement has now been made by the new administration that 40% of Barrios Altos is to be demolished. Picture-Luise Fischer

Thursday, 13 November 2014

The strategy building mapping
workshop took place in Lima from the 10th -12th of November. The incremental steps to be taken to halt the
unwanted change were identified in both Barrios Altos and JCM.

In JCM, strong pressure from land
traffickers is claiming large areas of land upslope. The opening up of roads and
selling of plots is leading to the fast urbanisation of areas considered in
physical risk. The trafficking is creating conflicts on the territory, not only
because of encroach on the perimeter of existing settlements, but also and more
importantly, because it is increasing risk for those living lower down the
slope.

The JCM mappers identified and
marked all the pressure points from the land trafficking activities, noting the
areas which needed to be conserved as open spaces. The main strategy which
emerged, is the need for each settlement to form a Committee for Open Spaces, recognised
and registered in the Municipality, as well a larger association bringing these
different committees together. Exploring all the legal avenues and the various front
to work in parallel to stop land traffickers, they agreed that the recognition
of the committees have to go hand in hand with the recognition of the territory
over which they will exert their rights. They will produce a map of these open
spaces and seek to have it certified by the municipality.

Barrios Altos, having shared the progress
made so far with the mapping of their own block, developed the steps and time
frames to strengthen the internal organisation and gain greater visibility towards
the outside. Priority areas were identified on the map, in order to first reach
out to those who are in imminent threat of eviction. In this way, organising
around particular problems was seen as the way to strengthen collective action
and widen the network. Other steps included the contact with already organised
groups and getting newspapers to publish and make visible particular issues. To
support this, maps of evictions, change of use into storage and water distribution, will be produced.

Friday, 25 April 2014

The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, the Bartlett Development Planning Unit and the Swiss NGO Drone Adventures, joined local partners in Lima from the 2nd to the 11th of February to map the two case study areas of Barrios Altos and José Carlos Mariátegui. Communities from Lima engaged in a mapping expedition using cutting edge technologies such as mapping drones, to explore new innovative 3D mapping pathways for areas that are undergoing an otherwise 'invisible' change.

Capturing and visualizing the current view of the city opens up possibilities for a more complete understanding of the environment we live in, leading towards a participatory and sustainable planning process. The first workshop was successfully completed, and the results are fascinating. The team is currently in Lima to engage in a second mapping workshop, and is working closely with Fora Ciudades Para La Vida, and community organisations.

The drone outputs were sent remotely to London from Lima, in order to be 3D printed. The aim is to create an installation suitable for community planning purposes in the two areas. The 3D outputs are converted into meshes and are then printed using a Makerbot 2 Replicator.

For information about the 3d mapping work please contact @en_topia on twitter
For information about the field work please contact Adriana Allen or Rita Lambert

Sunday, 6 April 2014

Great news! The aerial photo shot with a Sensefly eBee drone, in the Jose Carlos Marietaguil area as part of the ReMap Lima project, is now available in OpenStreetMap for tracing. The areal is donated by Drone Adventures to the OpenStreetMap Community andis of very high resolution, "capturing multiple square miles down to zoom level 21 — plenty for street level mapping".
The imagery is hosted on Mapbox, allowing anyone to Log in as an editor and start mapping.

JCM area is currently unmapped and an area which goes through constant changes. CASA, DPU and Community members from Lima, will soon be joining back to Lima towards the development of the online mapping platform.

For new OSM users, note that you can create an account in OSM. To load the aerial on the online editor, add a Custom Background and paste: http://b.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/droneadv.tky1eh2b/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png

Drone Adventures released also four new UAV imagery layers of their recent deployments for tracing on OpenStreetMap. For more information please visitAlex Barth's blog.